Rack-mounted video monitors as used in television broadcasting.
A video monitor also called a broadcast monitor, is a device similar to a television, used to monitor the output of a video-generating device, such as a media playoutserver, IRD, video camera, VCR, or DVD player. It may or may not have audio monitoring capability. Unlike a television, a video monitor has no tuner and, as such, is unable to independently tune into an over-the-air broadcast. One common use of video monitors is in Television stations and outside broadcast vehicles, where broadcast engineers use them for confidence checking of signals throughout the system. Video monitors are used extensively in the security industry with Closed-circuit television cameras and recording devices.
Another important reason why broadcast monitors must be used for video compliance at television or production facilities is they do not perform any video enhancements and try to produce as accurate an image as possible. For quality control purposes, it is necessary for a broadcast monitor to produce (reasonably) consistent images from facility to facility, to reveal any flaws in the material, and also not to introduce any image artifacts (such as aliasing) that is not in the source material. Broadcast monitors will try to avoid post processing such as up-scaling, line doubling and any image enhancements such as dynamic contrast. However, display technologies with fixed pixel structures (e.g. LCD, plasma) must perform image scaling when displaying SD signals as the signal contains non-square pixels while the display has square pixels[1]. LCDs and plasmas are also inherently progressive displays and may need to perform deinterlacing on interlaced signals.
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